Item #3859 T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart [with] T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves. Colonel Thomas Edward LAWRENCE, Robert, GRAVES, Captain LIDDELL HART.
T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart [with] T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves
T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart [with] T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves

T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart [with] T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves

London: Faber & Faber, 1938. Two volumes, large octavos in original publisher's cloth, frontispiece portraits, and top-edges gilded. A little mild preliminary foxing, one frontispiece creased, yet a handsome set in a worn slipcase. First editions, limited to 500 copies for Great Britain, and signed by Robert Graves and Captain Liddell Hart.

In the preface to his respective volume, Robert Graves describes meeting Lawrence at All Souls College in Oxford, after the war in 1920. They enjoyed good friendship, and Graves introduced Lawrence to other poets of the First War generation, including Siegfried Sassoon (who served alongside Graves in the Royal Welch Fusiliers). The friendship between Lawrence and his biographers makes for fascinating reflections, and these volumes reproduce much anecdotal and ephemeral material that would otherwise have been lost and dispersed over the ensuing years.

O'Brien writes 'these volumes, published in editions of 500 each in both England and America, are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with his two biographers. The letters, manuscript copy and corrections, reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. These volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented.' O'Brien A210 & A211. Item #3859

Price (AUD): $1,000.00

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